Tambo & Bones

Tambo & Bones

Who We Are Playwrights Horizons is a writer’s theater dedicated to the development of contemporary American playwrights, and to the production of innovative new work. In a city rich with cultural offerings, Playwrights Horizons’ 50-year-old mission is unique; we have distinguished ourselves by a steadfast commitment to centering and advancing the voice of the playwright.

It’s a mission that is always timely, and one that’s necessary in the ongoing evolution of theater in this country.

We believe that playwrights are the great storytellers of our time, offering essential contributions to civic discourse and illuminating life’s greatest paradoxes. And we believe in the singularity of a writer’s voice, valuing the broad, eclectic spectrum and diversity of American writers. Here, writers are supported in every stage of their growth through our New Works Lab, POP Master Class series, Soundstage audio program, the Lighthouse Project, and Almanac, our digital magazine.

We present a season of productions annually on our two stages, each of which is a world, American, or New York premiere. Much like our work, our audience is risk-taking and adventurous; and we’re committed to strengthening their engagement and feeding their curiosity through all of our programming, onsite and online.

Playwrights Horizons Theater School We are also an undergraduate theater program that offers an innovative four-year multidisciplinary training program that is consistently ranked as one of the best undergraduate training studios in the country.

Recognizing the diverse needs and ambitions of the 21st century theater artist, Playwrights Horizons Theater School is the only undergraduate studio training actors, directors, designers, choreographers, playwrights, and creators of devised work in a single setting at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Our collaborative program is dedicated to the principle that each student is a whole artist to be nurtured, challenged, and celebrated.

Our Commitment Playwrights Horizons commits to anti-racism in building a more just future for everyone — particularly those from historically oppressed communities, including the Lenape nation, whose land is home to our work. We acknowledge that the U.S. theater is born of a country founded on white supremacy and anti-Blackness, and we are dedicated to uprooting these and all systems of oppression. This work is ongoing and benefits our programming, staff, audiences, faculty, students, board, donors, and partners. We invite you to engage in this with us. As we expand the U.S. theater canon, we aim to make Playwrights Horizons a theater that is an anti-racist center of ideas, dialogue, curiosity, and a liberated imagination.

Our Conviction We are a home for the American writer. It is expressed in our very name: we are Playwrights.

From the Playwright: Dave Harris When I was in the first grade, my friend next door was killed by a bullet that was not meant for him. When I was in college, I tried to write a poem about my friend. But it had happened so long ago, I did not remember his name. So I made up a name. Called him “John.” I finished the poem about John. And then I won a poetry slam with that poem about John.

This was my game. I would travel around the country performing gigs and reciting poems, rehearsed to the second, in front of mostly white audiences. Here’s my sad poem about John. Here’s my sad poem about my deadbeat dad. Here’s my sad poem about my sad Black existence. I’d win the poetry slam. Win the audience’s love. Win the prize money. Audiences would snap and weep and I would feel tremendous. My master magic trick: deceiving someone into believing I’m being vulnerable.

It’s quite easy to write poorly and have a white person call you powerful. Important. Necessary.

Raw. Vital.

Let me not let us off the hook: Black folks say it too. Maybe they believe it. Maybe you do too.

The scary part is when I believed it. That I was telling the truth. That I was doing something important. High off my own shit. Prophet to no one. Trigger fingers turned Twitter fingers. It made me a worse writer. But it garnered me hundreds of thousands of views on YouTube. It started my career. Abra cadabra then I appeared.

Why am I doing this over and over? Is my pain the extent of my imagination? Is other Black writers’ language the extent of my pain? How am I seeing the same commercial police brutality story make so much money again and again?

The most fun part about writing is that every writer I know is a fucking liar. Some think this is radical political work. Some think writing is to channel the ancestors and the woo-woos to put voice to page. But all of this is just tactic. This was the realization that made me stop doing poetry slams and start to focus on theater. I wasn’t growing as an artist; I was growing as someone who could perform identity. Spoken word capitalizes on an idea of the authentic identity. The real person. But here, in this theater, all of us know that every second of this experience is fake. And there is infinite

possibility in that reality. And the pleasure is in the possibility.

Because there must be pleasure. Art is a choice.

Theater is a choice. If I am going to inflict fake ass theater suffering on myself, my characters, my audience, in the realm of language, it is a choice. I have the agency to create anything on the page. Why am I recreating the circumstances of my oppression? What void in myself am I trying to fill with my words and your applause?

I came to this essay on Tambo & Bones to write about the Black American literary imagination, and how Black American artistic capitalism perhaps begins with minstrelsy. And there’s a beauty in that. There was a kind of freedom I never knew until I was on a stage. I can imagine that feeling for my imaginary ancestors too, no matter the stage. The selfish pleasure of the lie.

But then, of course, freedom was never freedom.

It was just a spotlight.

I no longer live in poverty because of what I can do in front of an audience. I began with a dead boy and ended in an ars poetica. There’s money to be made in a well told lie. You can form a collective identity around a well told lie. Memory, too, can be the well told lie.

Here’s a true story about real emotion: when I was in sixth grade, I attended a school that was a 90-minute train commute from where I lived. Play practice ended at 9:00 PM. If I missed the 9:27 PM train, I would be stranded in the suburbs with no way home. One night, I realized I didn’t have bus fare. I didn’t know how I would get back home that night. I was terrified as I sat at that train station not knowing what to do. Then, somehow, I looked down under my seat at the train stop and there was a single token, just sitting there on the ground.

One single coin. I don’t know what I can say to make you understand that this was a peak of joy for me at that time. I almost feel nostalgia for that, the way a coin can feel like it changed your life. Nostalgia, originating from the Latin which means “to want an old death.”

The first time I performed that poem about John, I cried more than I thought I would. I cried so hard I could barely speak. The microphone was muffled by tears. I don’t know what the audience heard.

I don’t know what I was remembering.

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Playwrights Horizons Mainstage Theater Artistic Director

Managing Director

Adam Greenfield

Leslie Marcus

General Manager

Carol Fishman and

Center Theatre Group present

Tambo & Bones Written by

Dave Harris Featuring

Brendan Dalton W. Tré Davis Tyler Fauntleroy Dean Linnard Scenic Design

Costume Design

Sound Design

Original Music

Stephanie Osin Cohen

J. David Brimmer

Production Stage Manager

John C. Moore

Associate Managing Director

Kyle Sircus

Lighting Design

Amith Chandrashaker Mextly Couzin

Justin Ellington

Mikhail Fiksel Fight Director

Dominique Fawn Hill

Press Representative

Blake Zidell & Associates

Associate Artistic Director

Natasha Sinha

Casting

Alaine Alldaffer, CSA

Associate General Manager

Jenna Ready

Directed by

Taylor Reynolds Tambo & Bones is the recipient of an Edgerton Foundation New Play Award.

Tambo & Bones was developed at the 2021 Ojai Playwrights Conference: Robert Egan, Artistic Director/Producer.

Tambo & Bones was developed with support from SPACE on Ryder Farm and The Black Swan Lab at Oregon Shakespeare Festival.

Cast Tambo Bones X1 X2

W. TRÉ DAVIS TYLER FAUNTLEROY DEAN LINNARD BRENDAN DALTON

Production Stage Manager Assistant Stage Manager

JOHN C. MOORE BRYAN BAUER

About the Artists BRENDAN DALTON (X2). Playwrights debut. Off-Broadway: Plano (Clubbed Thumb), Blue Man Group (Astor Place Theatre), This Girl Laughs... (Atlantic for Kids). Other New York credits: The Place We Built (The Flea), Intuitive Men (The Brick, The Tank), Ensemble Studio Theater, Ars Nova, New York Theatre Workshop, The PIT. Regional: Once Upon a Time in the Berkshires (Williamstown), Blue Man Group (Chicago, Orlando). TV: “Dickinson,” “Younger,” “FBI.” BFA in Theater: University of the Arts. @bren.dan.dalton W. TRÉ DAVIS (Tambo). Playwrights debut. Off-Broadway: Seared (MCC, Williamstown Theatre Festival), Hamlet (The Public), Zooman and the Sign (Signature), Ensemble Studio Theatre.

Other New York credits: National Black Theatre (SWEET & Carnaval), The Movement Theatre Company, New Federal Theatre, Partial Comfort Productions, Mabou Mines, The Flea, The Poetic Theatre Company. Film: Premature (Sundance 2019), Violet (starring Olivia Munn), No Alternative. TV: “With Love,” “Valor,” “Shades of Blue,” “Chicago PD,” “SWAT,” “Orange is the New Black.”

Proud Graduate of Webster Conservatory.

For Granddad and Mama Houston.

TYLER FAUNTLEROY (Bones). Playwrights debut. Off-Broadway: Looking for Leroy (New Federal Theatre). Regional: Tempest (Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival), The Most Spectacularly Lamentable Trial

of Miz Martha Washington (Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival), 1 Henry IV (Folger Theatre), Cinderella: A Musical Panto (People’s Light), Romeo and Juliet (Westport Country Playhouse), Next to Normal (Syracuse Stage). TV: “Succession,” “FBI,” “The Oath.” Audelco Award for Best Acting Ensemble. BFA: Virginia Commonwealth University. @earthwindandtyler_ DEAN LINNARD (X1). Playwrights debut.

New York: Time Temple (Guggenheim Museum). Regional: The Winter’s Tale, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Good Person of Szechwan (California Shakespeare Theater); Groundhog Day: The Musical (San Francisco Playhouse); Hand to God, Bad Jews (Left Edge Theatre); The Tempest, Romeo and Juliet (Vermont Shakespeare Festival); Thrill Me (Luna Stage); The Huntsmen (Portland Playhouse); The Lightning Thief (Tour).

BFA: NYU Tisch, Stella Adler Studio, RADA. deanlinnard.com DAVE HARRIS (Playwright). Playwrights debut. Harris is a poet and playwright from West Philly and is the Tow Playwright-in-Residence at Roundabout Theatre Company. His play Exception to the Rule will have its world premiere at Roundabout Underground in spring 2022. Honors include the 2019 Ollie Award, The Lorraine Hansberry Award, Mark Twain Award from The Kennedy Center, the 2018 Venturous Fellowship from The Lark, and a Cave Canem

poetry fellowship amongst others.

His adapted film Summertime had its premiere at Sundance in 2020. His first full-length collection of poetry, Patricide, was published in May 2019 from Button Poetry.

TAYLOR REYNOLDS (Director).

Playwrights debut. Taylor Reynolds is a New York-based director from Chicago and one of the Producing Artistic Leaders of Obie-winning The Movement Theatre Company. Taylor has worked as a director, assistant, and collaborator with companies including Page 73, Clubbed Thumb, Keen Company, Signature Theatre Company, New Georges, MCC, and The 24 Hour Plays. Her selected directing credits: The Most Spectacularly Lamentable Trial of Miz Martha Washington (Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, NYT Critic’s Pick), Richard & Jane & Dick & Sally (Baltimore Center Stage/ Playwrights Realm), Tough (AADA), Plano (Clubbed Thumb, Drama Desk nomination for Best Director), Songs About Trains (Radical Evolution), Think Before You Holla (creator/deviser). Taylor is the 2021 LPTW Lucille Lortel Award recipient, a New Georges Affiliated Artist, 2017-2018 Clubbed Thumb Directing Fellow, and Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab alum. BFA, Carnegie Mellon University.

Member of SDC. STEPHANIE OSIN COHEN (Scenic Designer). Playwrights debut. OffBroadway: Ni Mi Madre (Rattlestick).

Regional: Hurricane Diane (Huntington); Men on Boats, Richard & Jane & Dick & Sally (Baltimore Center Stage); It’s a Wonderful Life (Hartford Stage); Good Faith (Yale Rep). Film: This American Wife, Circle Jerk, Drills.

Awards: Fulbright, Burry Fredrik Design Fellowship. MFA: Yale School of Drama. stephanieosincohen.com DOMINIQUE FAWN HILL (Costume Designer). Playwrights debut. OffBroadway: Darkgirl Chronicles: X (The Shed), Stew (Soho Rep.). Regional: Hedwig and The Angry Inch (Portland Center Stage), 125th & FREEdom (The National Black Theatre). Upcoming: And the Grass Grows (Harvard University),

Grace (The Ford’s Theatre), Fat Ham (The Public), White Noise (Studio Theatre).

MFA: University of California, San Diego. dominiquefhill.com AMITH CHANDRASHAKER (Lighting Designer). Playwrights: Wives. OffBroadway: The Public, Second Stage, TFANA, Signature, Ars Nova, Atlantic, Soho Rep. Regional: Williamstown, Berkeley Rep, Houston Grand Opera, Opera Omaha, Opera Colorado, The Atlanta Opera. Dance works by Alexander Ekman, Liz Gerring, Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet, and Rennie Harris.

Recipient of the Drama Desk and Henry Hewes awards. Assistant Professor of Lighting at The University of Maryland.

MEXTLY COUZIN (Lighting Designer).

Playwrights debut. Mextly is a Mexican Lighting Designer based in New York and Los Angeles. Off-Broadway: Kimberly Akimbo, Sunday (Atlantic, ALD); Indecent (Juilliard School); Temporary Occupant, The Woman’s Party (Clubbed Thumb).

Regional: The Old Globe, Repertory Theatre St. Louis, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, La Jolla Playhouse, Kansas City Rep, San Diego Symphony, Malashock Dance Company. MFA: University of California, San Diego. mextlycouzin.com MIKHAIL FIKSEL (Sound Designer).

Playwrights Horizons: This Flat Earth, The Treasurer, A Life (Lucille Lortel Award).

Broadway: Dana H. Other collaborations include The Public, Signature, NYTW, The Goodman, Steppenwolf, La Jolla Playhouse, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and multiple audio plays with Audible, WBEZ, and Make-Believe Association.

Awards: three Lucille Lortel Awards, numerous Joseph Jefferson Awards, and the 2020 Obie Award. mikhailfiksel.com JUSTIN ELLINGTON (Original Music).

Playwrights: Heroes of the Fourth Turning.

Broadway: Clyde’s, Pass Over, Other Desert Cities. Other Off-Broadway: Pipeline, The Rolling Stone (Lincoln Center); Mrs. Murrays’ Menagerie (Ars Nova); The House That Will Not Stand, Fetch Clay Make Man (New York Theatre Workshop). Awards: Henry Hewes Design Award, Obie Award, Audleco Award.

J. DAVID BRIMMER (Fight Director). Fight Master SAFD. Broadway: Passover, Spring Awakening, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Grace, Speed the Plow, Thérèse Raquin, Long Day’s Journey into Night. New York premieres: Socrates, Fairview, Hangmen, Is God Is, Yen, Gloria, An Octoroon, Blasted, Bethany, Blackbird, Bug, Killer Joe. “Walk cheerfully over the world, answering that of God in everyone.” G. Fox. JOSHUA LARRINAGA-YOCOM (Properties Designer). Playwrights: Heroes of the Fourth Turning. Broadway: The Humans, The Sound Inside, Hangmen. Off-Broadway: The Humans (Roundabout); Hangmen, Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven, Secret Life of Bees, Between Riverside and Crazy, Guards at the Taj, The Night Alive, Marie and Rosetta, Found (Atlantic); Collective Rage (MCC); Do You Feel Anger (Vineyard); Lazarus (NYTW); Mary Paige Marlow (Second Stage); For All the Women Who Thought They Were Mad (Soho Rep.); and Sarah Ruhl’s Passion Play. He is eternally grateful for the continued love and support of his husband Roberto.

JOHN C. MOORE (Production Stage Manager). Playwrights: A Strange Loop, Miles for Mary, A Life, Antlia Pneumatica, Marjorie Prime, The Christians. Broadway: Pass Over. Select Off-Broadway: Fefu and Her Friends (TFANA); We’re Gonna Die (Second Stage); Mrs. Murray’s Menagerie, Rags Parkland Sings the Songs of the Future, KPOP, Sundown Yellow Moon (Ars Nova); Sunday (Atlantic).

BRYAN BAUER (Assistant Stage Manager).

Playwrights: Selling Kabul, Dance Nation, Miles for Mary, Bella: An American Tall Tale, The Light Years, A Life. Broadway: Slave Play. Off-Broadway: Enemy of the People (Park Avenue Armory); Mrs. Murray’s Menagerie, KPOP (Ars Nova); Slave Play (NYTW); The Things That Were There (The Bushwick Star); We’re Gonna Die, King Liz (2ST). Regional: The Black Clown (A.R.T/ Lincoln Center); Skeleton Crew (Westport Country Playhouse); In Your Arms, Roar of the Greasepaint…. (NYSAF); A Christmas Carol (Lyric Theatre); Bernstein’s MASS (Canterbury Chorale Society). Dance: Oklahoma City Ballet, Vail Dance Festival.

CENTER THEATRE GROUP, one of the nation’s preeminent arts and cultural organizations, is Los Angeles’ leading nonprofit theatre company, which, under the leadership of Artistic Director Michael Ritchie, Managing Director / CEO Meghan Pressman and Producing Director Douglas C. Baker, programs seasons at the 736-seat Mark Taper Forum and 1,600 to 2,100-seat Ahmanson Theatre at The Music Center in Downtown Los Angeles, and the 317-seat Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City. In addition to presenting and producing the broadest range of theatrical entertainment in the country, Center Theatre Group is one of the nation’s leading producers of ambitious new works through commissions and world premiere productions and a leader in interactive community engagement and education programs that reach across generations, demographics, and circumstance to serve Los Angeles.

PLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS is dedicated to cultivating the most important American playwrights, composers, and lyricists, as well as developing and producing their bold new plays and musicals. Adam Greenfield became Artistic Director in 2020; Leslie Marcus has served as Managing Director since 1993. As it enters its 51st season, Playwrights builds upon its diverse and renowned body of work, counting 400 writers among its artistic roster. In addition to its onstage work each season, Playwrights’ singular commitment to nurturing American theater artists guides all of the institution’s multifaceted initiatives: our acclaimed New Works Lab, a robust commissioning program, an innovative curriculum at its Theater School, and more. Robert Moss founded Playwrights in 1971 and cemented the mission that continues to guide the institution today. André Bishop served as Artistic Director from 1981–1992. Don Scardino succeeded him and served until 1996. Tim Sanford, the organization’s longest-serving Artistic Director, held the position from 1996-2020. Over its 50-year history, Playwrights has been recognized with numerous awards and honors, including seven Pulitzer Prizes, 13 Tony Awards, and 47 Obie Awards.

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Playwrights Horizons Staff OPENING NIGHT: FEBRUARY 7, 2022

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR........ ADAM GREENFIELD MANAGING DIRECTOR...........LESLIE MARCUS GENERAL MANAGER............ CAROL FISHMAN Associate General Manager.................. Jenna Ready Company Manager............................... Maggie Swahl Assistant Company Manager and Head House Manager.............. Terrelle Jones Executive Assistant and Board Liason....................................Kiara Johnson ASSOCIATE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR........................ NATASHA SINHA Literary Director........................................ Lizzie Stern Artistic Programs Producer............ Karl Baker Olson Literary and Community Engagement Assistant................May Treuhaft-Ali CASTING DIRECTOR......... ALAINE ALLDAFFER Associate Casting Director....................Lisa Donadio COMMISSIONED ARTISTS Doris Duke Charitable Foundation/Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Commissions David Adjmi, Clare Barron, Dave Harris, Amy Herzog, Lucas Hnath, Ike Holter, Julia Jordan, Greg Keller Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust Commissions Kate Attwell, Christopher Chen, Heather Christian, Mia Chung, Samuel D. Hunter, Chris Miller and Nathan Tysen, Taylor Mac, Bruce Norris, Tori Sampson Kate and Seymour Weingarten Commissions Cesar Alvarez, Kate Cortesi, Sarah DeLappe, Bathsheba Doran, Emily Feldman, Marco Ramirez, Ianne Fields Stewart Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Commission Lisa Kron Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation Program for Commissioning Women in the Performing Arts Danai Gurira, Aleshea Harris, Sarah B. Mantell Amal Commission Mona Mansour Jody Falco and Jeffrey Steinman Commissions for Emerging Playwrights T. Adamson, Brittany K. Allen, Will Arbery, Bleu Beckford-Burrell, Agnes Borinsky, John J. Caswell, Jr., Milo Cramer, Julia Izumi, Hansol Jung, Jiehae Park, Korde Tuttle Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Musicals in Partnership Initiative Commissions Todd Almond and Lear deBessonet M.E.W. Commissions David Adjmi, Ricky Ian Gordon, Michael Korie, Anne Washburn Stacey Mindich Productions Commission Jenny Giering, Adam Gwon, Karen Hartman

ARTISTIC ADVISORY COUNCIL Daniel Aukin, Ashley Chang, Catherine Coray, Jorge Cortiñas, Ty Defoe, Madeleine George, Francis Jue, David Mendizábal, Amanda Spooner, Awoye Timpo, Jason Veasey RESIDENT THEATER COMPANIES Clubbed Thumb, Musical Theatre Factory, SPACE on Ryder Farm PRODUCTION MANAGER.............JAY JANICKI Technical Director..................................... Ed Massari Assistant Technical Designer..........Justus Herrera Costume Shop Supervisor........................Stevie Eng Production Coordinator...................... Carol Almonte Building Manager............................. Gustavo Naranjo Robert Moss Directing Fellow................... Adam Coy Stage Management Fellows........................Zach Brecheen, Ryan Kane DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT...........BENJAMIN WEISMAN Associate Director, Institutional Giving and Campaign.................................Susan Ferziger Annual Funds Associate...................Maddie Milligan Institutional Giving Associate........... Chani Sebazco INTERIM HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGER.......

SUZEN BRIA CONTROLLER................................ HOJAE LEE Data Analytics Manager...........Bonita Carol Thomas Accounting Assistant.....................Angelica Gallardo ASSOCIATE MANAGING DIRECTOR.............................KYLE SIRCUS Senior Marketing Manager...................... Erica Pierre Communications Associate.................Billy McEntee Graphics and Digital Content Associate..............................................Jordan Best Director of Ticket Services.................... Craig Melzer Audience Services Manager.............Katasha Nelson Box Office Associates..........................Aaron J. Klein, Sodongo Sodsuren DIRECTOR OF DIGITAL CONTENT.............................ALISON KOCH Digital Content Producer......................Chelcie Parry GENERAL PRESS REPRESENTATIVE................

BLAKE ZIDELL & ASSOCIATES

PLAYWRIGHTS DOWNTOWN ADMINISTRATIVE DIRECTOR.........................

EVA ROSA-FERRERA PLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS THEATER SCHOOL DIRECTOR............................ TOMI TSUNODA Producing Manager................................... Kyle Gates Manager of Student Affairs................ Libby Peterson Production Manager............................Ryan Courtney LEAD FACULTY Jaclyn Backhaus nicHi douglas Jedadiah Schultz Andrew Scoville Nicole Wee PLAYWRIGHTS REHEARSAL STUDIOS Client Services Manager....................James Wyrwicz Studio Associates.........................................................

Susan Bowyer, Adrienne Gomez, Amani Huell, Karolina Judd, Rebecca Kane, Aaron Keller, Kevin Kong, Zoe Maldonado, Regina Robbins SPECIAL SERVICES Legal Counsel...................................Farber Law, LLC; Andrew Farber, Esq Accountants.......................Lutz & Carr/Shari Ferrara Insurance............................ Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. of New York, Inc./AliceFay Prine Architect.........................Mitchell Kurtz Architect, PC Telephone Services............ RingCentral, Transbeam Computer Systems................... Lansend/Ashwin Pai Website Design.........................................Blenderbox CRM Software................................Tessitura Network Closed Captioning.......................................... GalaPro Digital Advertising................Allied Global Marketing Telemarketing..................................................SMART, Strategic Marketing for the Arts Custodial Services............ Impressive Cleaning Inc. AUTHORS’ THANKS

Thank you to every cast and crew of every iteration of this play. To UCSD Theatre and Dance. To Naomi Iizuka & Deborah Stein. To Natasha Sinha & Lindsay Allbaugh. To Amrita Ramanan & Reg Douglas. To Rachel Viola & Ben Blake & Henry Huang. Damn that’s my word count...

STAFF FOR TAMBO & BONES Company Manager............................... Maggie Swahl Production Stage Manager................. John C. Moore Assistant Stage Manager........................Bryan Bauer Assistant Company Manager and Head House Manager...................... Terrelle Jones Directing Fellow.......................................... Adam Coy Stage Management Fellow................Zach Brecheen Properties Designer...........Joshua Larrinaga-Yocom Puppet Builder....................................... Toria Sterling Vocal Coach................................................Jane Fujita Assistant Scenic Designer............. Anthony Freitas Paint Charge.......................................... Jesse Harron Carpenters...........................................Dulfy Trinidad, Granville Bell, Samuel Spear Associate Costume Designer............ L.A. Clevenson Wardrobe Supervisor.................................... Jac Ford Draper................................................Samantha Wood Costume Graphics Design................... Cheryl Barber Assistant Lighting Designer............... Eric Norbury Lighting Supervisor................Desi McCoy-Fischer Assistant Lighting Supervisor............................Stephen Cornelius Lighting Programmer....................Evan Herman-Chin Light Board and Spotlight Operator..........Celia Frey Deck Crew and Spotlight Operator.......Eric Sanford Lighting Crew....................... Rebecca McCoy-Fisher, Tim Lord, Kyle Lefeber, Evan Herman-Chin, Matt Lazarus, Abigail Rinaldi, Sarah Green Associate Sound Designer....... Megumi Katayama Audio Supervisor......................................Matt Hubbs Sound Board Operator...........................Ross Monroe Audio Crew................Kevin Novinsky, Mark Mainolfi, Charlie Oniszczuk, Brandon Bulls, Ross Monroe, DJ Potts, Hugo Fowler, Eamon Goodman A2 .............................................................. Eric Glauber A2 / Deck Hand............................... Brandon Bulls Artwork Design...........................................Jeff Rogers COVID Safety Officers...................... Narissa Agustin, Jennifer Kiefer House Managers....................... Kimberly Chatterjee, Rachael Murray, Carolyn Emery Vaccination Managers........... Jaime Welcher, Joanna Pisano, Ashley Burton

CREDITS

The set was built in the Playwrights Horizons Scenery Shop.

SPECIAL FUNDING

This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. Special thanks to The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust for supporting new plays and musicals at Playwrights Horizon.

The actors and stage managers employed in this production are members of actors’ equity association, the union of professional actors and stage managers in the United States.

The Director is a member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, a national theatrical labor union.

United Scenic Artists, Local USA 829 is the union representing scenic, costume, lighting, sound and projection designers in Live Performance.

WARNING: The photographing or sound recording of any performance or the possession of any device for such photographing or sound recording inside this theater, without the written permission of the management, is prohibited by law.

Violators may be punished by ejection and violations may render the offender liable for money damages. FIRE NOTICE: The exit indicated by a red light and sign nearest to the seat you occupy is the shortest route to the street. In the event of fire or other emergency please do not run – WALK TO THAT EXIT. Thoughtless persons annoy patrons and endanger the safety of others by lighting matches or smoking in prohibited areas during the performances and intermissions. This violates a city ordinance and is punishable by law. FIRE COMMISSIONER

Lynn Ahrens & Stephen Flaherty Once on This Island

“A mainstay of Off Broadway, Playwrights Horizons possesses one of the most distinguished histories among New York’s producers of new work. The list of playwrights discovered or supported by Playwrights Horizons is practically a Who’s Who of contemporary drama.”

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PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS

NOTABLE PRODUCTIONS

Michael R. Jackson A Strange Loop 2020 Obie, Lortel, Drama Desk awards

Sylvia Khoury Selling Kabul

Annie Baker The Flick 2013 Obie Award Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Bruce Norris Clybourne Park 2012 Tony Award Doug Wright I Am My Own Wife 2004 Tony Award Stephen Sondheim & James Lapine Sunday in the Park with George Wendy Wasserstein The Heidi Chronicles 1989 Tony Award Alfred Uhry Driving Miss Daisy

Will Arbery Heroes of the Fourth Turning 2020 Pulitzer Prize finalist Tori Sampson If Pretty Hurts Ugly Must Be a Muhfucka Larissa FastHorse The Thanksgiving Play Craig Lucas I Was Most Alive with You Clare Barron Dance Nation 2019 Pulitzer Prize finalist 2017 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Max Posner The Treasurer Dan LeFranc Rancho Viejo, The Big Meal

Adam Bock A Life, A Small Fire Lucas Hnath The Thin Place, The Christians 2015 Kesselring Prize 2016 Obie Award Robert O’Hara Bootycandy 2015 Obie Award Jordan Harrison Log Cabin, Marjorie Prime 2015 Pulitzer finalist, Maple and Vine Taylor Mac Hir Heidi Schreck Grand Concourse Anne Washburn Mr. Burns, a post-electric play

Madeleine George The (curious case of the) Watson Intelligence 2014 Pulitzer finalist Richard Greenberg, Scott Frankel, & Michael Korie Far From Heaven Amy Herzog The Great God Pan, After the Revolution Samuel D. Hunter The Whale 2013 Lortel Award Drama Desk Special Award Gina Gionfriddo Rapture, Blister, Burn 2013 Pulitzer finalist Lisa D’Amour Detroit 2011 Pulitzer finalist 2013 Obie Award Kirsten Greenidge Milk Like Sugar 2012 Obie Award Annie Baker Circle Mirror Transformation 2010 Obie Award Melissa James Gibson This Doug Wright, Scott Frankel, & Michael Korie Grey Gardens 2006 OCC Award Lynn Nottage Fabulation 2005 Obie Award David Greenspan Go Back to Where You Are, She Stoops to Comedy 2003 Obie Award Richard Nelson & Shaun Davey James Joyce’s The Dead 2000 Tony Award, Lortel Award, and Drama Critics’ Circle Award Richard Nelson Goodnight Children Everywhere Kenneth Lonergan Lobby Hero

Kirsten Childs Bella: An American Tall Tale 2017 Audelco Award The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin 2000 Obie Award

Clare Barron Dance Nation 2017 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize 2019 Pulitzer Prize finalist

Theresa Rebeck The Butterfly Collections Christopher Durang Miss Witherspoon 2006 Pulitzer finalist, Betty’s Summer Vacation 1999 Obie Award, Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You 1982 Obie Award A.R. Gurney The Dining Room, Later Life Jon Robin Baitz The Substance of Fire Jeanine Tesori & Brian Crawley Violet 1997 Obie Award, Lortel Award, and Drama Critics’ Circle Award

Stephen Sondheim & James Lapine Sunday in the Park with George 1985 Pulitzer Prize

Adam Guettel & Tina Landau Floyd Collins 1996 Obie Award and Lortel Award Scott McPherson Marvin’s Room 1992 OCC Award Stephen Sondheim & John Weidman Assassins 1991 Drama League Award Lynn Ahrens & Stephen Flaherty Once on This Island

Michael R. Jackson A Strange Loop 2020 Pulitzer Prize

William Finn March of the Falsettos 1981 OCC Award, Falsettoland

Photos of Dance Nation and A Strange Loop by Joan Marcus.

Sunday in the Park… by Gerry Goodstein. Once on This Island

by Martha Swope.

Bruce Norris Clybourne Park 2011 Pulitzer Prize 2012 Tony Award

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Playwrights Horizons is a writer’s theater dedicated to the support and development of contemporary American playwrights, composers and lyricists, and to the production of their new work. The theater offers career-long advocacy and artistic and technical resources to artists. As an audience member, you are an important part of our mission and of our proud 51-year tradition. We would like to thank all of the individuals and institutions in both the public and private sectors whose donations help to sustain our annual programs and productions. For more information about making a donation, visit phnyc.org/give.

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Erin Laber Treasurer Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers

Larissa FastHorse Vice Chairman Writer

Jill Crovitz Secretary Principal, Crovitz Consulting

Mark Birkhead Managing Director, JPMorgan Chase

Robert W. Jones Co-Founder, Antares Technologies

Alan Poul Executive Producer/Director, Boku Films

André Bishop Artistic Director, Lincoln Center Theater

Alex Halpern Levy President, A.H. Levy & Co.

David L. Caplan Partner and General Counsel, Atairos

Leslie Marcus Managing Director, Playwrights Horizons

Nick Russo Group Executive Director, Marketing, Meredith

Bash Doran Writer

Katrina E. McCann Attorney, Proskauer Rose LLP

Bryce L. Friedman Partner, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

Juliet Moser Literary and Theatrical Enthusiast

Ethan Geto Principal, Geto & de Milly, Inc.

Robert Moss Founder, Playwrights Horizons

Fell Gray Head of Brand and Creative, Arizent

Mark Musico Partner, Susman Godfrey LLP

Adam Greenfield Artistic Director, Playwrights Horizons

Robert O’Hara Writer/Director

Eric M. Gural Co-Chief Executive Officer, GFP Real Estate

Vinnie O’Toole Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer, Horizon Media

Tim Sanford Former Artistic Director, Playwrights Horizons Marisa Sechrest Producer/Theatrical Consultant, Altair Entertainment Dana M. Seshens Partner, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP Scott Slobodnyak Vice President, Markets Group BNY Mellon Rachel Wilder Freelance Writer Bruce Nathan Wilpon Partner, Sterling Equities Jide Zeitlin

Institutional Support

Institutional supporters of Playwrights Horizons receive many benefits, such as complimentary tickets, discounts for their employees, and public recognition. For more information about how your company can support Playwrights Horizons, please contact Susan Ferziger, Associate Director of Institutional Giving, at sferziger@phnyc.org or 212 564 1235 ×3142.

$25,000+ Booth Ferris Foundation Citi Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP Edgerton Foundation The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, Inc. Ford Foundation GFP Real Estate Howard Gilman Foundation Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC J.L. Greene Arts Access Fund in The New York Community Trust The Laurents/Hatcher Foundation The Marc Haas Foundation Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation No Guarantees The Richenthal Foundation Sir Peter Shaffer Charitable Foundation The SHS Foundation The Shubert Foundation Seth Sprague Educational & Charitable Foundation Stavros Niarchos Foundation The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust Tiger Baron Foundation Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation The Tow Foundation WarnerMedia $10,000–$24,999 21st Century ILGWU Heritage Fund Bloomberg Philanthropies Con Edison Frederic R. Coudert Foundation Ernst & Young LLP

Horizon Media The Hyde and Watson Foundation The Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation Carl Jacobs Foundation Jerome Foundation The JKW Foundation The Ralph & Ricky Lauren Family Foundation, Inc. The Lawrence E. Madison Charitable Lead Unitrust S&P Global Adolph and Ruth Schnurmacher Foundation, Inc. The Spingold Foundation The Dorothy Strelsin Foundation, Inc. Taconic Capital Advisors, L.P. The Travelers Companies, Inc. The Wilke Family Foundation $5,000–$9,999 The Theodore H. Barth Foundation, Inc. The Carter Fund Charina Foundation, Inc. Joseph & Joan Cullman Foundation for the Arts The Barbara Bell Cumming Charitable Trust Green Curtain Productions Marta Heflin Foundation Bertha & Isaac Liberman Foundation The Liman Foundation Lucille Lortel Foundation Morgan Stanley The New York Community Trust PricewaterhouseCoopers The Geraldine Stutz Trust The Tobin Theatre Arts Fund

Government Support National Endowment for the Arts New York City Department of Cultural Affairs New York City Council at the request of Speaker Corey Johnson and Council Member Carlina Rivera New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature

$2,500–$4,999 The Diamonstein-Spielvogel Foundation First Republic Bank Malcolm Gibbs Foundation The DuBose & Dorothy Heyward Memorial Fund National Alliance for Musical Theatre Ropes & Gray LLP TDF $500–$2,499 Actors’ Equity Foundation Alliance of Resident Theaters/ New York Amazon Smile The Hilaria and Alec Baldwin Foundation, Inc. Casillero del Diablo Chez Josephine The Betsy and Alan Cohn Foundation, Inc. DeWitt Stern Group, Inc. MFW Wine Co. Rodgers and Hammerstein Foundation Pritzker Traubert Foundation West Bank Cafe Yotel Playwrights Horizons is a recipient of support from The Leading National Theatres Program, a joint initiative of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Artistic Director’s Circle The Playwrights Horizons Artistic Director’s Circle includes our most dedicated individual donors who have committed to gifts of $10,000 or more each year for a three-year period. The Artistic Director’s Circle joins with the Playwrights Horizons Board of Trustees in supporting the vision of Artistic Director Adam Greenfield. Members of the Artistic Director’s Circle are considered loyal partners in developing and producing new plays by some of the most adventurous and talented artists working in theater today. For more information about the personalized benefits and access available for the Artistic Director’s Circle, please contact Benjamin Weisman, Development Director, at bweisman@phnyc.org or 212 564 1235 ×3145.

Anonymous Mark & Lillian Banchik Svante Bergström J. Kerry Clayton & Paige Royer Evan Hoffman & Eugene Paceleo Bruce Horten & Aaron Lieber

Judith H. Krupp Jarrett & Maritess Lilien Rosalee A. & Bruce Lovett Stephen & Carolyn McCandless Dorinda J. Oliver Barbara Raho

Nancy & Roger L. Strong, Jr. Seymour & Kathleen Weingarten Cathy & Stephen Weinroth

Individual Support Individual supporters of Playwrights Horizons receive exclusive benefits ranging from complimentary tickets to intimate dinners and cocktail parties with artists, staff, and Board members. For more information about how you can support Playwrights Horizons, please contact Benjamin Weisman, Development Director, at bweisman@phnyc.org or 212 564 1235 ×3145. $25,000+ Anonymous (4) Svante Bergström David Caplan & Karen Wagner J. Kerry Clayton & Paige Royer Angela M. Crossman & Bryce L. Friedman Jill & Chuck Crovitz Paul Daniels Krystyna Doerfler Eric & Nancy Gural Christopher R. Lawrence Vinnie & Loretta O’Toole Michael & Juliet Patsalos-Fox David Richenthal Judith O. & Robert E. Rubin Beth & Mikael Salovaara Dana Seshens & Robert Kresberg Bruce Nathan Wilpon $10,000–$24,999 Anonymous Claire & Larry Aidem Roger Altman & Jurate Kazickas Mark & Lillian Banchik Mark Birkhead Ann L. & Lawrence B. Buttenwieser Joan B. Cohen Jody Falco & Jeffrey Steinman Friedman Family Foundation Mr. Mark T. Gallogly & Ms. Elizabeth B. Strickler James Gleick & Cynthia Crossen Sam Gonzalez Fell & Charles Gray David Handler & Doug Pawliuk

Evan Hoffman & Eugene Paceleo Bruce Horten & Aaron Lieber Robert W. Jones Judith H. Krupp Erin Laber Alex Halpern Levy Jarrett & Maritess Lilien Rosalee A. & Bruce Lovett Reuben & Arlene Mark Stephen & Carolyn McCandless Richard & Ronay Menschel Rosemary Newman Dorinda J. Oliver Barbara Raho Don & Carol Randel The Rosenthal Family Foundation Dan Safin Nancy & Roger L. Strong, Jr. Seymour & Kathleen Weingarten Francis H. Williams Doug Wright $5,000–$9,999 Anonymous (2) Birna Anna Bjornsdottir & Peter Niculescu Rob Cordell Sandra Davis Cheryl & Blair Effron Kathy Elsesser Scott & Diane Emery Katherine Farley & Jerry I. Speyer Laurie Goldberger & Leslie Kogod Cathy Grape Tara & Clifford Harris

Hutchins Family Foundation Rory & David Jones Helen Kim-Bordes Kaori Kitao Lili Lynton & Michael Ryan Jill H. Matichak Amy B. McIntosh & Jeffrey Toobin Robert B. Menschel Terry Miller Pauline & Nicolas Oudin Carole M. Pesner Dr. Robert A. Press Shelley Roisen Fiona Howe Rudin Christine & Stephen Schwarzman Joanne & Daniel C. Smith Scott Slobodnyak & Owen Sweeney David & Deborah Trainer Cathy & Stephen Weinroth The Wilder Family Dorinda & Mark Winkelman $3,000–$4,999 Anonymous Martine Beamon & Eddie Joyce Elaine S. Bernstein André Bishop John & Jill G. Bishop Allison M. Blinken Ruth & Robi Blumenstein Christopher Byrne & Ellen Hardy Patrick Callinan & Daniel Rosales Loyd F. Crawley Carol & Tom Creel Robert W. Davenport

Christopher & Michelle DeLong Glenn & Eva Dubin Suzan & Fred Ehrman Hazel & Russel Fershleiser Renee & Sy Flug Dr. Gail Furman Leslie Hendrix & Joseph Adam Smith Maxine Isaacs Caytha & Michael Jentis Roberta A. Jones Lewis & Ellen Kaden Frederick & Seen Landman Gina Maria Leonetti Chien Cho Liu Allan & Anita Lubarsky Jonathan Minkoff Niclas Nagler & David Alberto Alvarez Asha & DV Nayak Kathleen O’Grady John Orberg Nancy Roistacher & Wayne P. Merkelson Gretchen & Jamie Rubin Patricia Brown Specter Susan & Charles Tribbitt David F. Wertheimer & Alice Fricke Anna & Tony Wild $1,800–$2,999 Anonymous (2) Vincent Alfieri & Kerstin Larsen Nancy Ashen Andrew D. Austin & Michael R. Sonberg John W. Bernstein & Diana Davenport Paul & Barbara Bernstein Peter & Sarah Beshar Susan M. Borozan Joseph Buckley & Nancy Oyer Maggie & Don Buchwald Helaine & Paul Cantor Lisa & Dick Cashin Jonathan L. Cohen Kim & Stan Corfman Scott M. Delman David desJardins The Cory & Bob Donnalley Charitable FDN Nancy & Bob Downey Jane M. & Howard D. Epstein John R. Ettinger & Linda A. Simpson Richard Feiner & Annette Stover Eleanor Fink, Esq. Betsy & Andrew Fippinger Sandra Fischer Natalie Fishman Kit Flanagan

Tony & Jane Ford-Hutchinson Leonard R. Freifelder & Anne E. Easterling-Freifelder Robert A. Gender The Malcolm Gibbs Foundation, Inc. James W. & Virginia M. Giddens Terina Golfinos & Robert Lisi Stephen & Halley Green Melissa Greener Dr. Rob & Audrey Greenfield Guerrerio Family Foundation Christina Hargrove & Scott Crum Jane Hartley & Ralph Schlosstein Cari Hauck Cathleen Healy Tom Healy & Fred P. Hochberg Kris & Kathy Heinzelman Ellen & Larry Herold Judith Hersha�t Adler Jon Michael Hill Barry Hoffman & Jane Weiss Donald Holder Bruce Horten & Aaron Lieber Stephen & Sherry Jacobs Stephen H. Jaffe & Jane Gilbert Philip M. Jelley, Jr. Roselle & Brian Kaltner David I. Karabell & Paula A. Moss Amy L. Katz & Irving Scher Liz & George Krupp John Kuehn & Elaine Crowley Robb Lady Lee Ann Laimbeer Vicki Gold Levi James & Emily Levin Beth W. Liou The Honorable & Mrs. Earle Mack Martin Maleksa Marlene Marko & Loren Skeist Nina B. Matis Leni & Peter May Scott McDonald Anne Parker Mills & James Hanbury Erica Moffett Evangeline Morphos Robert & Guna Mundheim New OZ Productions Alfred T. & Jan Ogden Lisa Orberg Jamie & Daniel Ordower Ellen Ozur & Stuart Brown Benji Pasek Susan & Richard Pasternak Frank H. & Patti S. Penski Perakis Family Richard & Lisa Perry Leslie & Eileen Quick Bruno & Mary Ann Quinson Christine & Stephen Rhodes Mrs. Mark Rosso & Ms. Larissa

Kruesi Robert E. Rubin Carolyn Ruby & William Maiese Nicholas P. Russo Karen & Charles Schader Stephanie C. Scott Marisa Sechrest Robert L. Seigel Naomi O. Seligman & Ernest Von Simpson Nadine Shaoul & Mark Schonberger Stephanie & Alfred J. Shuman Eileen Silvers & Richard Bronstein Marlene Marko & Loren Skeist Janet & Mike Slosberg Barbara & Cheryl Small Emerson & Erica Spry Stagedoor Manor Alec Stais & Elissa Burke Trevor & Margaret Stewart Aleksandra Szczepanowska & Gordon Shearer Antoinette Tomai David & Deborah Trainer Lisa Van Curen Lee & Cynthia Vance Carol & Robert Walport Edward & Barbara Weikert Harris Allan Weinstein Gloria Zeche Burton Zwick $1,000–$1,799 Anonymous Ellen Abrams Gretchen Adkins Sari Anthony Susanna R. Bergtold David S. Berlin Ann & Steven Berzin Leslie Bhutani Kimberly S. Blanchard Stuart J. Chanen Chez Josephine Amanda & Warren Chiu Ellie & Edgar M. Cullman, Jr. Gregory Dimit John A. Dobler Bathsheba Doran Darren Dotson Anthony Edwards Mariana Elder Theresa Esperdy and Robert G. Neborak David Freedlander Dennis Furbush Roy L. Furman Ethan Geto Carson Gleberman The Stewart & Constance Greenfield Foundation

Adam Greenfield & Jordan Harrison Mary G. Gurney Jane Hait & Justin Beal Patricia Hayot & Ricardo A. Mestres, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Healey Nancy Heller & Holly Gewandter Sue Hessel & Karen Dahle Buck Henry Cristy Hill & Richard Mizer Robert J. Katz Helen Kauder & Barry Nalebuff Ellen & Rick Kelson Michael & Jamie Kessel Robert Klein Barbara & Stuart Kreisberg Robert Kreisberg Linda & Paul Lee Douglas Liebhafsky David W. Mallison and Carolyn Chaliff Mari Marchbanks PLM Foundation Philip & Cheryl Milstein Lowell & Sandra Mintz Mulé Family Foundation James & Terri Muren F. Richard Pappas Annie Parisse & Paul Sparks Liz & Jeff Peek Carl & Zelie Pforzheimer David Hyde Pierce Irene Ramp David Rievman & Anne Oh Richard C. Norton, Jr. Trevor S. Norwitz Beth A. Rogers & Jeffrey Katz Libby & Jimmy Ryan Mr. and Mrs. Earl A. Samson Karen Seymour Robert H. Sinclair Mr. & Mrs. Peter J. Solomon Lynne Whitman & Dan Solender Tim P. Stanard

Deborah & Kenneth Whitmore $500-$999 Anonymous (2) Lynn Ahrens & Neil Costa Foundation Fund Helayne Baron Joshua Beker Mr. Peter Bernstein & Mrs. Amy Bernstein Al Berr Teresa Bledsoe Susan M. Borozan Susan Brown Kathleen Budge Jonathan Benton Cummings & Holly Hegener Jennifer Campos Romy Cohen William Derby Mary Jane Divino Max Ember Ev & Lee Anton Faron Mary Ferlan Patricia Gannon-Lovier & Lester Lovier Ellen Garber Nanette Gartrell Nancy N. Gibbs Mary Goldberg Daniel Gonzalez Horacio & Gloria K. Gonzalez Pamela Gross & Susan Silverstein Carol Avery Haber Bob Hall Robert Harrits Wendy Hashmall David N. Herskovits Lynn E. Hopkins Katharine J. Hughes Jo Kurth Jagoda Susan Jeffries Peter H. Judd

Joshua Kaufman Brian Kendig Walter Klores Karen & Christopher Kyle Jennifer Leuba Eugene Levy Jayne Lipman & Robert Goodman Kathryn Lipuma Craig Lucas Jane Macan Jennifer Major Robert D. & Jean Markley Michael McCabe Jung J. Moon Herbert A. Morey Robert H. Moss Jim & Terri Muren Lauren Newman Nancy J. Baker & Daniel Olson Edward P. Osborne Michael & Gabrielle Palitz Lori and Lee Parks Ross Pasquale Gregg Passin & Andy Schmidt Melissa Pavlicek Donald Press Angela M. Rodell Susan Ross-Green Andrew W. Siegel Mindy & Gary Sircus Lois Smith Susan Margules Steinhardt & John Steinhardt Lilly Tam Jennifer Thomas Mei-Mei Tuan Beth Vanderslice Alec Walsh Lee Wasserman Hilda Wenig Mordechai Winter Billy Wong

Legacy Circle

Playwrights Horizons gratefully acknowledges those who have chosen to become a member of our Legacy Circle by including a Charitable Bequest for Playwrights Horizons in their estate plans through wills, retirement accounts, life insurance ownerships, and real estate. Members of this group receive invitations to exclusive events and insider information on organizational goals and plans. To learn more, or to join, please contact Development Director, Benjamin Weisman at 212 564 1235 ×3145.

Joan B. Cohen Liz Fallon Culp Ann B. Dickinson Howard Epstein Jane Epstein Susan Ferziger Jill Garland Sam Gonzalez

Barbara Kreisberg Stu Kreisberg Leslie Marcus Enid Nemy Dorinda J. Oliver Linda Rothstein Judith O. Rubin Robert E. Rubin

Mikael Salovaara Carole Schwartz Mal Schwartz Georgina Spelvin The Dorothy Strelsin Foundation Benjamin Weisman Rachel Wilder

Generation PH Generation PH is a community of theatergoers ages 45 and under who attend Playwrights Horizons productions; mingle with artists, artistic staff, and our Board of Trustees at exclusive parties and receptions; and see theater in a new way by talking to writers about the development of their plays. Plus, a portion of each membership is a tax-deductible contribution that directly supports these amazing artists and their new work. For more information about joining Generation PH, contact Development Director, Benjamin Weisman at 212 564 1235 ×3145.

LEADERSHIP COMMITTEE Katrina E. McCann, Co-Chair Nick Russo, Co-Chair

Betsy Fippinger Deborah Grant Anna Mack Steve Nowicki Elana Propis Scott Slobodnyak

Carlo Steinman Aleksandra Szczepanowska Carol Walport Robert Walport Jason Wu

BEST FRIEND ($1,500+) Richard Berg Lauren Ehrhardt Nicole & Franco J. Azzopardi, Jr. Betsy & Andrew Fippinger Deborah Grant & Serge Tanjga Cari Hauck Taena Kim Dillon & Brenda Lorda Katrina E. McCann Melinda McLellan Alex Mitow & James Miille Steve Nowicki Pauline & Nicolas Oudin Elana Propis Nicholas P. Russo Matt Schneider & Priyanka Garg Marisa Sechrest Dana Seshens & Robert Kresberg Scott Slobodnyak & Owen Sweeney Carlo Steinman Aleksandra Szczepanowska & Gordon Shearer Carol & Robert Walport Jason Wu

Attienette G. Azille John Bishop & Diana Sciortino Eugene Brodach Allison Curran & Michael Hilkin Emily Erstling Cynthia R. Flowers Sandra Garner Nelson A. Isava Hernandez Travis James Philip A. Johnson Trevor S. Kokal &Naoki Sasamoto Christina Koza Nick Luckenbaugh Catherine Lynch Michael Melamedoff Catherine Mulligan Anne G. Myers Marc Pickard Lauren Dettloff Rothstein Cochleen & Jonathan Sands Andrea Stefanescu Briel Steinberg Martin Woodard

Anna Glick Jen Hoguet Courtney Mitchell Camille Nivero Cate Nivero Erica Rotstein Erika Stallings Jennifer & Benjamin Whitfield

DEVOTED FRIEND ($600–$1,499) Aude & Thibault Adrien

GOOD FRIEND ($400–$599) Nicole Aiken Nicole Aiken Jeffrey Ferrera

NEW FRIEND ($200–$399) Pinto Adhola Henri Benaim Talia Corren Brett S. East Jennifer de Fouchier Christopher Fox William Gfeller Justin Hale Phoebe Holtzman & Massimo Young Mike Karp & Ramón Torres Christina Koza Suzy Morais Michael Oliveras Madeline Rhodes Elian Seidel Nathalie Sommer

Matching Gifts Many companies have matching gift programs that enable our donors to double their donations.

Playwrights Horizons thanks these companies for matching the gifts of their employees and supporting our theater. For more information about matching gifts, please contact Susan Ferziger, Associate Director, Institutional Giving and Campaign, at sferziger@phnyc.org or 212 564 1235 x3142.

Adobe, Inc. American International Group, Inc. Assured Guaranty Bank of America The Bank of New York Mellon Carnegie Corporation of New York Charities Aid Foundation of America Deutsche Bank Americas FIG, LLC Fortress Investment Group LLC

Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC Merck Meredith Corporation Foundation New York Community Trust Pfizer, Inc. Public Service Electric & Gas Company S&P Global Two Sigma Walt Disney Company

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